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by dmm 3y ago
> A colleague once claimed that there is nothing wrong with out-of-bounds accesses as long as we don’t crash. I need to find the source, but someone pointed out that the safety advantages of Rust are, in part, cultural and I increasingl
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by dmm 3y ago
> why around Windows 7, I ended up using VMWare Workstation instead, Linux has gotten a lot better and windows a lot worse in the fifteen years since 7 came out. I'm forced to use Windows 11 for work and I have many, many issues wit
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by dmm 3y ago
> The only solution to ending the use of fossil fuels is banning the use of fossil fuels entirely. Technology will never do it. If electricity is more expensive in the US because we have banned (or heavily taxed) fossil fuels, wouldn&#x2
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by dmm 3y ago
I replaced the controller board in my Kinesis Advantage with a QMK-based KinT and I highly recommend it: https://github.com/kinx-project/kint
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by dmm 3y ago
You could setup a wireguard server at home. An overlay network like tailscale or nebula is another option.
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by dmm 3y ago
On Linux, Chromium uses setuid or user namespaces to restrict the access of sandboxed components and seccomp-bpf to reduce the kernel attack surface. Check out the Chromium docs on this topic: https://chromium.googlesource.com&#x
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by dmm 3y ago
> while we look for a workaround. emacs will always be there for you, when you're ready.
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by dmm 3y ago
I really want to use TRAMP. Basic editing works but I had a lot of trouble getting lsp based programming modes, like rustic, working. Maybe I should try again. Terminal mode works but requires a lot of workarounds and copy/paste integr
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by dmm 3y ago
> I'd like to see more science proving that social media is bad for kids before I see lawmakers enacting laws around the theory Is there science proving that porn is harmful for children? If not, do you see that as an argument for l
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by dmm 3y ago
> What $35 phone out there has the network bandwidth for porn that isn’t tied to identity in a way that a parent couldn’t easily spot and prevent? Here's a couple. You can buy these and use them with the free wifi at McDonalds or wi
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by dmm 3y ago
> any device a child has access to. That's not the world we live in today. Stores local to me will sell a (terrible but internet capable) phone for $35 to anyone. So you are proposing moving the age verification to the device purcha
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by dmm 3y ago
Collectivism is good because you have a tightly integrated communities that take care of each-other. Outsiders often see those parts and think it looks pretty great. But what they are missing are downsides of collectivism. All real-world co
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by dmm 3y ago
If you need that much ram, maybe consider n100 machines. For ~$180 you can a complete system with case, power supply, 16GB ram, 500GB ssd. The m.2 storage and amd64 distro compatibility makes it worthwhile to me. Here's one example but
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by dmm 3y ago
> the idea of having to go fetch my backup key out of a safe to register it (and hope the site allows multiple keys) just feels impractical An alternative some people use is to register a TOTP code and print out the QR code. Then you can
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by dmm 3y ago
I don't know how I missed this. You made my day! Thanks!
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by dmm 3y ago
> Webrender Would this allow emacs to be used as a web application?
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by dmm 3y ago
I haven't seen any changes in the chatgpt plus interface yet.
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by dmm 3y ago
TPM/measured boot can provide proof that a DRM stack is in place.
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by dmm 3y ago
When something is labeled "BPA Free!" it means that the BPA has been replaced by something even worse, like BPS. Is there a mechanism to prevent something similar in this case?
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by dmm 3y ago
I see this sentiment expressed a lot and I think it's understandable, having a community of people that support each other is appealing. But I'm not sure it's possible. I'm not an expert in collective communities but it
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by dmm 3y ago
> KISS ipv6 and routable ips is way simpler than patching layer 2 networks together.
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by dmm 3y ago
Block the whole subnet and make it the ISP's problem?
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by dmm 3y ago
LLMs can read from images. Should we stop teaching reading?
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by dmm 3y ago
> if teachers want students to write something on which AI can get high scores, then whatever they're teaching is obsolete Doing trivial things is often the first step in learning how to do non-trivial things. No one has ever needed
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by dmm 3y ago
> the only advantage of SODIMMs I see are in repairability. Another advantage is that you don't have to buy ram from the OEM. I can buy 64GiB of ddr5 for <$150. Apple wants $400 for 64GiB.
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by dmm 3y ago
You can use ectool to swap keys around: https://community.frame.work/t/exploring-the-embedded-contro... Someone changed their keyboard to colemak using this technique: https://community.frame.work/t&#x2
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by dmm 3y ago
FreeBSD pf has been multithreaded for a long time. The FreeBSD 11 pf(4) man page from 2013 specifically says so[1]. [1] https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pf&apropos=0&sekti...
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by dmm 3y ago
> I thought it was to reduce plastic waste in the environment Recycling plastic requires cleaning it, which uses lots of water and introduces a path for microplastics to enter the environment. Landfills are pretty good at containing wast
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by dmm 3y ago
OpenAI regularly changes the model and they admit the new models are more restricted, in the sense that they prevent tricky prompts from producing naughty words, etc. It should be their responsibility to prove that it's just as capable
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by dmm 3y ago
Another option is an ssh/https multiplexer like sslh: https://github.com/yrutschle/sslh It allows you to listen for https and ssh traffic on a single port.

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